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AUGSBURG
KCMR power struggle
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Rating Augsburg's library
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Augsburg College, Minneapolis
Vol. 95, No. 14
Friday, February 24, 1989
Food issues central to world peace f °*ocati!!,n,.,
r features Nobel
First peace prize forum presents solutions to world hunger
By KAROLINE HASLE
Staff Writer
"We will have reached our goal
when everyone leaves today with a
clear understanding of individual
responsibility in the strive for
peace."
The words of Jeanne Narum,
director of the Independent Colleges Office, referred to the first
annual Peace Prize Forum with
the theme "Striving for Peace:
Past, Present and Future."
Augsburg was one of six ELCA
colleges sponsoring the event held
at St. Olaf College Feb. 17-18.
The event was held in cooperation
with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which annually awards the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Past recipients include Martin
Luther King, Desmond Tutu and
Andrei Sakharov, organizations
such as UNICEF and Amnesty International and in 1988, the United
Nations Peacekeeping Forces.
Nobel laureate Norman
Borlaug's agricultural
research has stirred controversy.
Story, page 8
Norman Borlaug of the International Maize and Wheat Center
received the Peace Prize in 1970
for his work to improve world
food supply through plant
technology, because world peace
is closely related to adequate food
supply.
Borlaug participated in the
forum's opening session with
agricultural experts Wes Jackson
and G. Edward Schuh. The session dealt with the problems of
producing enough food and transporting it to where it is needed.
Agricultural production has increased tremendously in the last
40 years due to new knowledge
and technology, but problems are
far from solved, Borlaug said. For
example, he said from 1966 to
1986 India increased its grain production from 11 million tons to 47
million tons a year, and it became
a self-sufficient grain producer in
1975.
Today when there is a flood in
India, the world does not hear
about famine, but that does not
mean that people are not starving,
Borlaug said. Because of distribution problems, many still starve.
Another problem is the surplus
of food in the Western countries,
Borlaug said. This is partly due to
distribution difficulties but also to
economic factors.
"Many African countries do
not have the currency to import
the food they need," he said.
"And even if they did, people
wouldn't have money to buy it."
Schuh said the main reason for
famine in developing nations is
poverty.
"People in the Third World
simply don't have the money to
buy food," he said.
"It's not an impossible task to
stop hunger, but political will is
missing," Schuh said. "We need
to change, to be less wrapped up
in our own problems, because we
can't continue to exist in a poor
world. We need to improve our
foreign aid program very
significantly. Currently it is 1/100
of our GNP. We can do better."
Schuh said U.S. foreign aid is
lower than that of most Western
nations.
Future peace perspectives were
discussed in a panel moderated by
former Vice President Walter
Continued on page 8
Victims plagued by memory of Stock
Editor's note: During the next three weeks the Echo will take a
retrospective look at last year's events centering around Elroy Stock, an
Augsburg benefactor who sent as many as 100,000 controversial mailings pledging racial and religious purity.
Stock donated $500,000 to Augsburg in May, 1987, nine months
before being publicly linked to the mailings. Amid pressure to return the
donation, Augsburg kept his money but decided not to name the communication wing of Foss Center after Stock.
Today's articles focus on the recipients of Stock's mailings a year
later and on his present relationship to the college and community.
Next week students and administrators will give their views on how
the college handled the controversy. On March 10 an exclusive Echo interview with Stock will be published.
By STEVE AGGERGAARD ====^=
Staff Writer
The letters have stopped, but
the hurt remains.
One year ago this month
Augsburg benefactor Elroy Stock
was exposed as the source of letters that have hurt and frightened
thousands of people.
Now that Vivian Jenkins Nelsen
has stopped receiving Stock's letters, she no longer fears for her
life as she did last year.
But memories of being "terrorized" by Stock's mailings prompted her to sue him for emo-
Augsburg's response—
was it correct?
Story, page 3
tional distress. She seeks damages
of more than $50,000 in Hennepin
County District Court.
Nelsen said she received more
than 100 mailings from Stock over
a 13-year period. She teaches
Educational Psychology at
Augsburg part-time, is a promi
nent black leader in the Twin
Cities, and is administrative director of the Humphrey Insititute of
Public Affairs at the University of
Minnesota.
She also has worked with disadvantaged teenagers, many of
whom also received letters from
Stock.
When Nelson received the mailings she believes to be from Stock,
she feared for her own and her
family's safety.
"We had no idea that one person could be doing that," she
said. Before Stock was exposed as
the source of the letters, Nelsen
thought a group such as the Ku
Klux Klan or neo-Nazis was to
blame.
The letters also have stopped
for attorney David Porter. As
the adoptive father of Korean
children, he said he received mailings from Stock in 1981 and 1983.
He sued Stock in district court,
alleging emotional distress. He
withdrew the suit "for strategic
reasons," he said, to make way
for a case with a better chance of
going to trial.
Porter did not identify Nelsen's
case directly, but referred to a case
involving "a faculty member at
Augsburg."
Porter said he is more interested
in making "am impression on the
Elroy Stocks of the world" than
he is in getting money. "There are
always going to be some Elroys,
Continued on page 8
Institute
director
By BRAD BRANAN
Staff Writer
"I have for a long time felt very
close to you, linked to you
through family ties," Dr. Jakob
Sverdrup said as he addressed last
Friday's convocation audience.
His speech at the convocation was
in recognition of the Nobel Peace
Prize Forum at St. Olaf College in
Northfield, MN.
As Director of the Norwegian
Nobel Institute for the last ten
years, Dr. Sverdrup is responsible
for screening candidates for the
Nobel Peace Prize through international networks and direct interviews. In turn, he gives
background files on candidates to
the Parliament-appointed Nobel
Committee that decides the win-
Sverdrup laughingly admitted
that he has some influence in
that he "can direct the committee to certain organizations or individuals."
The Sverdrup-Augsburg connection was reunited by this convocation. Jakob Sverdrup is a
member of a family that has had a
strong influence on the Augsburg
tradition. Dr. Georg Sverdrup and
Dr. George Sverdrup, (father and
son, respectively) were presidents
of Augsburg for over one-third of
the school's history.
Continued on page 7
Echo writer honored
The Auggies closed thi
i last Saturday with a loss to Bethel, leaving them 5-15 in the MIAC. Story, page 6
—Photo by Garret Williams
An Echo writer received an
award at the Minnesota Newspaper Association convention on
Feb. 17.
Steve Aggergaard, co-editor of
the Echo during 1987-88, won second place in investigative reporting in the MNA's annual contest
for college journalists.
The winning entry was a series
of stories on students' rights to
use tape recorders in class. Aggergaard discovered that an
Augsburg professor did not allow
disabled students to record his lectures, although a federal regulation specifically gives those
students the right to do so.
Accompanying articles reported
on non-disabled students' rights
to use tape recorders and how tape
—Photo by Garret Williams
recorders could make instructors
nervous.
There were 15 entries in the investigative reporting category
from college and university
newspapers across the state.
Judges commented that Aggergaard "did an excellent job of
getting the whole story." He
received the award at the MNA's
convention at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Minneapolis.
Newspapers at Augsburg College, Concordia College of St.
Paul and Macalester College were
the only publications at private
colleges to receive awards at the
convention.
Echo adviser Boyd Koehler and
journalism lecturer Cathy Dalglish
also attended the convention.

v
ft
7k
AUGSBURG
KCMR power struggle
page 5
Rating Augsburg's library
page 8
Augsburg College, Minneapolis
Vol. 95, No. 14
Friday, February 24, 1989
Food issues central to world peace f °*ocati!!,n,.,
r features Nobel
First peace prize forum presents solutions to world hunger
By KAROLINE HASLE
Staff Writer
"We will have reached our goal
when everyone leaves today with a
clear understanding of individual
responsibility in the strive for
peace."
The words of Jeanne Narum,
director of the Independent Colleges Office, referred to the first
annual Peace Prize Forum with
the theme "Striving for Peace:
Past, Present and Future."
Augsburg was one of six ELCA
colleges sponsoring the event held
at St. Olaf College Feb. 17-18.
The event was held in cooperation
with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which annually awards the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Past recipients include Martin
Luther King, Desmond Tutu and
Andrei Sakharov, organizations
such as UNICEF and Amnesty International and in 1988, the United
Nations Peacekeeping Forces.
Nobel laureate Norman
Borlaug's agricultural
research has stirred controversy.
Story, page 8
Norman Borlaug of the International Maize and Wheat Center
received the Peace Prize in 1970
for his work to improve world
food supply through plant
technology, because world peace
is closely related to adequate food
supply.
Borlaug participated in the
forum's opening session with
agricultural experts Wes Jackson
and G. Edward Schuh. The session dealt with the problems of
producing enough food and transporting it to where it is needed.
Agricultural production has increased tremendously in the last
40 years due to new knowledge
and technology, but problems are
far from solved, Borlaug said. For
example, he said from 1966 to
1986 India increased its grain production from 11 million tons to 47
million tons a year, and it became
a self-sufficient grain producer in
1975.
Today when there is a flood in
India, the world does not hear
about famine, but that does not
mean that people are not starving,
Borlaug said. Because of distribution problems, many still starve.
Another problem is the surplus
of food in the Western countries,
Borlaug said. This is partly due to
distribution difficulties but also to
economic factors.
"Many African countries do
not have the currency to import
the food they need," he said.
"And even if they did, people
wouldn't have money to buy it."
Schuh said the main reason for
famine in developing nations is
poverty.
"People in the Third World
simply don't have the money to
buy food," he said.
"It's not an impossible task to
stop hunger, but political will is
missing," Schuh said. "We need
to change, to be less wrapped up
in our own problems, because we
can't continue to exist in a poor
world. We need to improve our
foreign aid program very
significantly. Currently it is 1/100
of our GNP. We can do better."
Schuh said U.S. foreign aid is
lower than that of most Western
nations.
Future peace perspectives were
discussed in a panel moderated by
former Vice President Walter
Continued on page 8
Victims plagued by memory of Stock
Editor's note: During the next three weeks the Echo will take a
retrospective look at last year's events centering around Elroy Stock, an
Augsburg benefactor who sent as many as 100,000 controversial mailings pledging racial and religious purity.
Stock donated $500,000 to Augsburg in May, 1987, nine months
before being publicly linked to the mailings. Amid pressure to return the
donation, Augsburg kept his money but decided not to name the communication wing of Foss Center after Stock.
Today's articles focus on the recipients of Stock's mailings a year
later and on his present relationship to the college and community.
Next week students and administrators will give their views on how
the college handled the controversy. On March 10 an exclusive Echo interview with Stock will be published.
By STEVE AGGERGAARD ====^=
Staff Writer
The letters have stopped, but
the hurt remains.
One year ago this month
Augsburg benefactor Elroy Stock
was exposed as the source of letters that have hurt and frightened
thousands of people.
Now that Vivian Jenkins Nelsen
has stopped receiving Stock's letters, she no longer fears for her
life as she did last year.
But memories of being "terrorized" by Stock's mailings prompted her to sue him for emo-
Augsburg's response—
was it correct?
Story, page 3
tional distress. She seeks damages
of more than $50,000 in Hennepin
County District Court.
Nelsen said she received more
than 100 mailings from Stock over
a 13-year period. She teaches
Educational Psychology at
Augsburg part-time, is a promi
nent black leader in the Twin
Cities, and is administrative director of the Humphrey Insititute of
Public Affairs at the University of
Minnesota.
She also has worked with disadvantaged teenagers, many of
whom also received letters from
Stock.
When Nelson received the mailings she believes to be from Stock,
she feared for her own and her
family's safety.
"We had no idea that one person could be doing that," she
said. Before Stock was exposed as
the source of the letters, Nelsen
thought a group such as the Ku
Klux Klan or neo-Nazis was to
blame.
The letters also have stopped
for attorney David Porter. As
the adoptive father of Korean
children, he said he received mailings from Stock in 1981 and 1983.
He sued Stock in district court,
alleging emotional distress. He
withdrew the suit "for strategic
reasons," he said, to make way
for a case with a better chance of
going to trial.
Porter did not identify Nelsen's
case directly, but referred to a case
involving "a faculty member at
Augsburg."
Porter said he is more interested
in making "am impression on the
Elroy Stocks of the world" than
he is in getting money. "There are
always going to be some Elroys,
Continued on page 8
Institute
director
By BRAD BRANAN
Staff Writer
"I have for a long time felt very
close to you, linked to you
through family ties," Dr. Jakob
Sverdrup said as he addressed last
Friday's convocation audience.
His speech at the convocation was
in recognition of the Nobel Peace
Prize Forum at St. Olaf College in
Northfield, MN.
As Director of the Norwegian
Nobel Institute for the last ten
years, Dr. Sverdrup is responsible
for screening candidates for the
Nobel Peace Prize through international networks and direct interviews. In turn, he gives
background files on candidates to
the Parliament-appointed Nobel
Committee that decides the win-
Sverdrup laughingly admitted
that he has some influence in
that he "can direct the committee to certain organizations or individuals."
The Sverdrup-Augsburg connection was reunited by this convocation. Jakob Sverdrup is a
member of a family that has had a
strong influence on the Augsburg
tradition. Dr. Georg Sverdrup and
Dr. George Sverdrup, (father and
son, respectively) were presidents
of Augsburg for over one-third of
the school's history.
Continued on page 7
Echo writer honored
The Auggies closed thi
i last Saturday with a loss to Bethel, leaving them 5-15 in the MIAC. Story, page 6
—Photo by Garret Williams
An Echo writer received an
award at the Minnesota Newspaper Association convention on
Feb. 17.
Steve Aggergaard, co-editor of
the Echo during 1987-88, won second place in investigative reporting in the MNA's annual contest
for college journalists.
The winning entry was a series
of stories on students' rights to
use tape recorders in class. Aggergaard discovered that an
Augsburg professor did not allow
disabled students to record his lectures, although a federal regulation specifically gives those
students the right to do so.
Accompanying articles reported
on non-disabled students' rights
to use tape recorders and how tape
—Photo by Garret Williams
recorders could make instructors
nervous.
There were 15 entries in the investigative reporting category
from college and university
newspapers across the state.
Judges commented that Aggergaard "did an excellent job of
getting the whole story." He
received the award at the MNA's
convention at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Minneapolis.
Newspapers at Augsburg College, Concordia College of St.
Paul and Macalester College were
the only publications at private
colleges to receive awards at the
convention.
Echo adviser Boyd Koehler and
journalism lecturer Cathy Dalglish
also attended the convention.